Reasonable Quotes

815 Reasonable quotes by 631 unique authors

Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself… — Michael Jackson
I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts… — H. L. Mencken
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her… — Jane Austen
PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it. — Ambrose Bierce
Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day. — Evelyn Underhill
I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety. — John S. Pistole
A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you… — Peter Mayhew
We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks us to keep our balance. — Lech Walesa
The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with… — Edmund Burke
Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit. — Edmund Burke
If a man loses one-third of his skin he dies; if a tree loses one-third of its bark, it too dies. If the Earth is… — Richard St. Barbe Baker
No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins. — Kurt Vonnegut
What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of my control, unnamed,… — Terry Tempest Williams
The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant. — Fiorello H. La Guardia
Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild,… — Saint John Chrysostom
But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and… — Birch Bayh
My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because… — Paul Theroux
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man. — Democritus
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek… — Leo Tolstoy
Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it. — Agatha Christie
Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the… — Gary Miller
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. — Marcus Aurelius
The idea that business is strictly a numbers affair has always struck me as preposterous. For one thing, I've never been particularly good at numbers,… — Richard Branson
If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for… — Jerry Garcia
It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning. — Henry David Thoreau

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